Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1887-03-19
MAJOR WARNER NOT amused
IFrom the odessa Democrat.1


: The failure of the house OF represen-
tatives to override the presidents veto
OF the dependent parents pension bill
caused the face of Major Warner to
take on one of those sardonic grins
that is anything but promoter of good
digestion.
TO judge from the majors speech, he
was not only not amused" but he tor
got his old time grin when shaking
hands and taking wee drop of bouf-
bon with his democratic friends and
supporters of the fifth district, but was
positively angry, and waved the bloody
shirt with an unction and a deXteritv
that wonld have done credit 10 Blaine
or ingalls,.
He accused the president of signing
the Mexican pension bill because the
south furnished more soldiers in the
Mexican war than the north did, and
that the bill gave pension to all Mexi-
can veterans, "whether he was loyal
or disloyal during the war of the rebel
liun."
The above utterance of this attorney
OF the train-wreckers, this special
pleader for eX-post- facto laws, to make
Il point against the president, should
hide his face in shame. In the first
place, he misrepresented his constitu-
ents when he voted for the pauper PEN
sion bill, and he now adds insult 10 in
jury by clearly intimating that he wonld
have much preferred to have excluded
those of the Mexican war veterans who
took up arms for the south.
Warner neglects to state in his ha-
rangue that the bill that he was so So
licitous about gave four dollars more
per month to the class of soldiers nam
ed in the bill than it did to the bene-
ficiaries of the Mexican pc ision bill.
He also neglected to state that it re-
quired all the Mexican war pensioners
to be 81 years old to get pension ex-
cept those that were disabled, and
these disabilities shall not have been in
Cured in aiding or abettlng the re-
bellion. The bill Mr.. Warner advOca-
ted set no limit as TO age.
There is another prominent feature
in the vetoed bill to which special at
tention is directed. This bill called for
a pension thirteen years earlier than
service pensions were ever allotted to
the soldiers of any war in which the
United States was ever engaged. The
scantiv clothed and poorly paid revo-
lutionary soldier had to wait thirteen
years longer for pension than the
"coffee cooler and the bounty JUMPER"
as Gen. Bragg, Of Wisconsin. a four
years veteran of the fedora army put
it in his caustic d"nuncialion of the
bill in its attempted ae lge over the
presidents veto in tn, .,vuse.
1t granted pension Seventeen years
earlier than was allowed to the veter-
ans of the Mexican war.
II the government wants to do JUS
tice let this service pension bill be laid
on the shelf for seventeen years, and
then grant it to all who served on the
winning side in the last war. Between
the laws now on the statute books and
the many soldiers homes throughout
the country there is no danger of any
deserving soldier failing to receive his
just re ~ ard from the government-in
so far as small monied consideration
: will compensate soldier for hiaSQrB
: and hrnises received in the
Major Warner has conn
wave the bloody shirt very
the campSgM OF 1888. The
has your speech, major, and
serve it with great care You
1t quoted great many times b -
get to be governor of Missouri.
The mild hammered emo party" man
of the fifth district when at home, can
put on the war paint with stha2
them when in Washlngf
seems. E